JUNE 27, 2023
Smoke from Canadian wildfires is seen reaching Europe in this satellite photo June 26, 2023. / Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
The thick haze that recently blanketed much of the northeastern U.S. may have dissipated, but the problem at its root is far from over. On Tuesday, scientists warned that the wildfires in Canada have generated "record levels of...
JUNE 27, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court's ruling on Tuesday in a major election case was bad news for John Eastman — the lawyer aligned with Donald Trump who pushed a novel legal theory in his bid to overturn the 2020 election.
Tuesday's 6-3 ruling rejected a sweeping version of what has been dubbed the “independent state legislature theory,”...
JUNE 26, 2023
FILE PHOTO: Mosquito is caught in plastic box by German mosquito researcher Kroeger in Leipzig
Five cases of malaria have been confirmed in Florida and Texas, the first time the potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease has been locally acquired in the United States in 20 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.
GMO mosquitos released in Florida...
JUNE 23, 2023
Americans seeking to move out on their own outnumbered available housing by almost 2 to 1 in 2021, according to a report.
There were roughly 8 million individuals or families who lived in another person’s home in 2021 and just 3.7 million homes for rent or sale, Zillow revealed Friday, leaving a deficit of 4.3 million homes.
“The U.S....
JUNE 23, 2023
Every Indian Muslim knows about the pause: the moment when another Indian, usually a Hindu, hears your name, waits a few seconds, and then, with a furrowed brow or a step back, acts surprised and confused that you, too, are Indian. The implication is one of suspicion, as though we are Indians with an asterisk—or worse, as...
JUNE 23, 2023
Superstar yogi Sadhguru has more than 10 million followers on Instagram. - Stefano RELLANDINI
Superstar yoga teacher Sadhguru has more than 10 million followers online and he sees no limit to how many people will become adherents in the coming years.
"I think in 25 years you will have probably 60 to 70 percent of the world doing some...
JUNE 23, 2023
General Motors CEO Mary Barra, seated to the right of Ford CEO Jim Farley, listens during an event on clean cars and trucks, on the South Lawn of the White House Aug. 5, 2021. - Evan Vucci, AP
Ford Motor Co. is planning to lay off a minimum of "several hundred" salaried employees, starting as soon as next...
JUNE 23, 2023
Former US president Barack Obama spoke about the Titan sub this week in Athens, Greece.
y, when he discussed the struggles which asylum seekers face around the world.
Obama called for people to think about the “circumstances which lead desperate people to come here”.
He said: “We can’t ignore it.
“You think about what’s happening this week. There is a potential...
JUNE 22, 2023
Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, at a news conference with US President Joe Biden, not pictured, in the East Room of the White House during a state visit in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, June 22, 2023. Biden and Modi will announce a series of defense and commercial deals designed to improve military and economic ties between...
JUNE 22, 2023
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets supporters as he arrives in New York on June 20, 2023.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — India’s democracy is at a weak point. The U.S. government has accused India of engaging in significant human rights abuses.
And yet, on Thursday, the U.S. president is throwing India’s prime minister a lavish state dinner.
For a politician who...
